Auto-Translator

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Final Fantasy XI has an auto-translating function to bridge the language divide between Japanese players and English speaking players. Text entered using this feature will appear in Japanese to those using the JP version of the game and in English to those using NA or EU version. Players are not able to add words or phrases but there is a list of items that rotate depending on the player.

Using the Auto-TranslateEdit

There are two ways to input text: auto-complete or through a category search.

Auto-completeEdit

When entering text in the game you can always press the Tab Button to activate the auto-complete. This will open up a menu which will give you all the words and phrases that start with the letters you have already entered.

Category SearchEdit

Choosing a bracketed word from the auto-complete menu, or pressing tab without any previous input will trigger the category menu to be displayed, which consists of 38 original categories. Choosing one of these will then open up a sub-menu of words or phrases pertaining to the category.

After you have already selected a word it will show in your input bar with {colored brackets} signifying that it is an auto-translated word; if you delete or modify any part of this word the brackets will disappear and it will no longer be translated.

CategoriesEdit

GreetingsEdit

All right!
Congratulations!
Excuse me...
Good bye.
Good evening!
Good job!
Good luck!
Good morning!
Good night!
Hello!
I'm back!
I'm sorry.
Nice to meet you.
Please forgive me.
See you again!
Take care.
Thank you.
That's too bad.
Welcome back.
You're welcome.

QuestionsEdit

Can I add you to my Friend List?
Do you have it?
Do you need any help?
How?
In what order shall we do our Weapon Skills?
What Weapons can you use?
What's the battle plan?
What?
When?
Where?
Which?
Who?

AnswersEdit

Hmmm.
Huh!?
I don't know how to answer that question.
I don't understand.
I see.
I'm playing solo right now.
I'm sorry. I'm busy now.
No thanks.
Really?
Thanks for the offer, but I'll have to pass.
That's interesting.
Um...
Understood.
Yes, please.

CheckEdit

TacticsEdit

Back line job
Defeat this one first!
Detects by sight
Detects by smell
Detects by sound
Detects low HP
Detects spellcasting
Found it!
Front line job
Full attack!
Heal!
Healing!
Help me out!
I'll follow you.
Jumping to new area.
Let's rest for a while.
No more MP!
Please check it.
Please follow.
Pull back.
Ready to start Skillchain!
Ready!
Run away!
Setting Home Point.
Standing by.
Stop!
Support role job

ControllerEdit

Analog Stick
Directional button
Directional pad
Expansion port
L1 button
L2 button
L3 button
R1 button
R2 button
R3 button
SELECT button
START button
Trigger
Xbox Guide button
✕ button
◯ button
□ button
△ button

KeyboardEdit

Alt key
Arrow keys
Backspace key
Caps Lock Key
Ctrl key
Delete key
End key
Enter key
Esc key
Function keys
Hankaku/Zenkaku key
Home key
Insert key
Numeric keypad
NumLock key
Page Down key
Page UP key
Shift key
Spacebar
Tab key

Game TermsEdit

Modes of TransportEdit

RacesEdit

Settings & SetupEdit

Backup
Black List
Client
Config
Connection
Connection Lost
Connection Speed
Filter
Friend List
Hard Disk
Ignore List
Lag
Log off
Log on
Macro
Modem
Monitor
Patch
Phone Line
Power
Save
Screenshot
Server
TV
Version

TitlesEdit

Adept
Amateur
Apprentice
Archduke
Artisan
Boss
Captain
Cardinal
Chief
Chief Sergeant
Chieftainness
Clerk
Corporal
Craftsman
Enemy
First Lieutenant
General
Guildmaster
Herald
High Guard
Initiate
Journeyman
King
Knight
Lance Corporal
Last Boss
Leader
Mega Boss
Member
Mercenary
Minister
Monster
Musketeer
Notorious Monster
Novice
Pet
President
Prince
Princess
Private First Class
Private Second Class
Recruit
Second Lieutenant
Sergeant
Sergeant Major
Shopkeep
Star Sibyl
Sub Boss
Superior Private
Theologian
Veteran

ReasonsEdit

Casting spell.
Fighting right now!
Have stuff to do, gotta go!
I don't feel well.
I don't know.
I don't remember.
I have plans.
I want experience points.
I want to make money.
I'm interested.
I'm not up for it.
I'm sleepy.
I'm tired.
Just used it.
Time for work!

LanguagesEdit

Can you hear me?
Can you speak English?
Can you speak French?
Can you speak German?
Can you speak Japanese?
English
French
German
I can speak a little.
I can understand a little.
I dont speak any English.
I don't speak any French.
I don't speak any German.
I don't speak any Japanese.
I need some time to put together my answer.
Japanese
Please do not abbreviate your words.
Please listen.
Please use simple words.
Please use the auto-translate function.

Online StatusEdit

Away
Invisible (Online Status)
Online

SkillsEdit

ShopsEdit

Air Travel Agency
Armor Shop
Auction House
Chocobo Stables
Delivery
Goods Store
Guild Salesroom
Hat Shop
Jewelry Store
Linkshell Vendor
Magic Shop
Map Vendor
Music Shop
Restaurant
Sea Travel Agency
Specialty Vendor
Tackle Shop
Tavern
Vendor
Weapon Shop

Equipment AreaEdit

ammo
back
body
feet
hands
head
L.ear
L.ring
legs
main
neck
R.ear
R.ring
range
sub
waist

LocationsEdit

Down
East
Flank
Front
Inside
Left
Middle
North
Outside
Over there
Rear
Right
Side
South
Surface
That way
This way
Up
West

GroupsEdit

Allegiance
Alliance
Allied Forces of Altana
Dark Kindred
Federal Forces of Windurst
Linkshell
Orcish Hosts
Party
Quadav Shieldwarriors
Republican Army of Bastok
Royal Army of San d'Oria
Yagudo Theomilitary

JobsEdit

TimeEdit

A.M.
Afternoon
April
August
Break
Day after tomorrow
Day before yesterday
Day of the week
December
February
Friday
Holiday
Hour
January
July
June
Last week
Long time
March (Month)
May
Minute
Monday
Morning
Next week
Night
November
October
P.M.
Saturday
Second
September
Short time
Sunday
Thursday
Time remaining
Today
Tomorrow
Tuesday
Wednesday
Yesterday

TradeEdit

Buy?
Can I have it?
Do you need it?
I don't have anything to give you.
Lower the price?
No money!
please
Reward:
Sell?
Trade?
You can have this.

OrganizeEdit

Any vacancies?
Are you alone?
Create an alliance?
Disbanding party.
Gather together.
Just for a short time is fine.
Let's try to keep the levels of our party members close.
Looking for members.
Our party's full.
Please assist.
Please invite me.
Please let me join.
Taking a break.
Team up?
Turn your party flag on.
Who is the leader?

Place NamesEdit

Place Names 2Edit

Text CommandsEdit

FiendsEdit

SpellsEdit

EquipmentEdit

Amulet
Armor
Arrow
Artifact
Bait
Baselard
Bastard Sword
Belt
Boots
Bow
Buckler
Bullet
Cape
Cesti
Chain
Circlet
Claymore
Cloak
Clogs
Collar
Crossbow
Cuisses
Doublet
Earring
Finger Gauntlets
Fishing Rod
Gaiters
Gloves
Gorget
Greaves
Gun
Hachimaki
Hairpin
Harness
Head Gear
Headband
Helm
Instruments
Jerkin
Kimono
Knife
Knuckles
Lance
Leather
Ledelsen
Leggings
Longsword
Mail
Mantle
Mask
Mittens
obi
Patas
Pendant
Plate
Racial Gear
Rapier
Ribbon
Ring
Robe
Sallet
Scale
Scarf
Scimitar
Shinobi-gatana
Short Sword
Sitabaki
Slacks
Slops
Spear
Starting Gear
Subligar
Tachi
Trousers
Tunic
Uchigatana

General TermsEdit

accident
adventure
advice
alphabet
announcement
answer
anyone
anything
bag
ball
birthday
blood
book
box
breath
bridge
building
cabin
camera
cap
captain
card
carpenter
cat
chance
character
child
clock
cloth
cloud
color
communication
company
Compression
computer
contest
country
courage
course
dance
danger
Darkness
date
death
Detonation
diary
dictionary
difference
direction
Distortion
doll
dream
each
earth
earthquake
egg
entrance
event
everyone
examination
example
excitement
exit
fact
Fantasy
fear
Final
flower
food
Fragmentation
friend
fun
Fusion
gentleman
government
Gravitation
guest
guide
habit
hair
half
hand
hat
hill
hobby
hole
husband
ice
idea
Impaction
Induration
interest
island
journey
joy
key
kindness
Kodoku
lake
language
last
leaf
leg
letter
liberty
license
lie
Light
limit
Liquefaction
list
luck
machine
mail
man
map
market
master
meat
medicine
memory
menu
message
mind
mine
mistake
money
moon
mountain
music
nature
news
notice
onion
opinion
order
owner
paper
part
peace
person
phone
photo
picture
place
plan
play
pond
population
position
present
price
problem
program
promise
purpose
quality
question
Quiver
rain
reason
report
Reverberation
river
rock
rod
rose
sale
schedule
Scission
sea
secret
senior
sentence
series
shoes
shop
sightseeing
size
sky
smile
sound
stage
statue
storm
story
success
symbol
tax
teacher
test
text
thing
ticket
tool
train
Transfixion
tree
voice
wife
wind
woman
word
work

Pet CommandsEdit

Job AbilitiesEdit

Weapon SkillsEdit

Job TraitsEdit

Blue MagicEdit

SongsEdit

NinjutsuEdit

Dokumori
Doton
Hojo
Huton
Hyoton
Jubaku
Katon
Kurayami
Raiton
Suiton
Tonko
Utsusemi

AvatarsEdit

Key Items (varies)Edit

This category contains entries based solely on the Key Items you currently have.

Currently, if you have more than 240 total of temporary, permanent, and claim-slip key items (maps are not counted), you will be unable to use the Auto-Translator to translate Key Items.

Items (varies)Edit

This list of items changes constantly. With a maximum capacity of 200, it is populated as you view items in your inventory, equipment slots, bazaars, and the auction house, and when you see an auto-translated item name in chat. The items appear in alphabetical order, but the game maintains some kind of internal queue (FIFO) structure to replace the oldest items with new ones when it is full. Items currently in your inventory will always stay in this list. If you have already used the translation of an Item in the list, it will then allow you to use the auto-complete feature on that item if you wish to type it again for translation.

Use the /translate command to manually add an item to your dictionary.

You must use the abbreviated form of the item name exactly as it appears in inventory lists.
You may first need to press the SPACE and then TAB keys before the item name is added to the dictionary.

Cheat SheetEdit

There is a cheat sheet in english language available to help you remembering the most important social auto-translation entries.

TriviaEdit

The auto-translate function was first introduced in the October 21, 2003 version update to coincide with the North American PC release of FFXI.
The green and red parentheses that denote the start and end of an auto-translated phrase were not introduced until the December 16, 2003 version update. Previously, auto-translated words appeared as a slightly different color, making it difficult at a glance to tell which words were being auto-translated.
Zone names that begin with the word "The" such as "The Boyahda Tree" originally appeared with the preceding article. They were stripped of the article (e.g., "Boyahda Tree") (on September, 14, 2004?), but were given the articles again in the December 13, 2005 version update.
Although "Thank you." and "I'm back!" have been in the auto-translate system since 2003, "You're welcome." and "Welcome back." were not introduced until April 18, 2006.
Relic weapon skills were introduced on February 26, 2004 but to this day have not been added to the auto-translate function.
One of the most commonly misused phrases in the auto-translator is Reward, the BST Job Ability. Players often shouted in towns asking for services and offering a gil "Reward", but they were unaware that their requests did not make sense in Japanese. To alleviate this problem, the April 18, 2006 patch included a new phrase, "Reward:", that conveys the intended meaning to Japanese players.
Another commonly misused phrase in the auto-translator is "bee" the animal with "be" in the pulling macros. This also has no sense in Japanese because they normally read with those macros -- |Fishing| <enemy> |Hornet| |Ready!| -- but only in English phonetically has sense.

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